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100 1  Lucchesi, Emilie Le Beau,|eauthor. 
245 10 Ugly prey :|ban innocent woman and the death sentence that
       scandalized jazz age Chicago /|cEmilie Le Beau Lucchesi. 
264  1 Chicago, Illinois :|bChicago Review Press,|c[2017]. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    x, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Guilty -- The year before -- To shield and protect -- 
       Ninety-five days to die -- Passing through the fire -- 
       Epilogue: All that jazz. 
520    "An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and 
       struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive 
       family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in
       1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two 
       months, she was found guilty and became the first woman 
       ever sentenced to hang in Chicago. Journalist Emilie Le 
       Beau Lucchesi leads readers through Sabella's sensational 
       case, showing how, with no evidence and no witnesses, she 
       was the target of an obsessed deputy sheriff and the 
       victim of a faulty legal system. She was also--to the men 
       who convicted her and the reporters fixated on her--ugly. 
       For that unforgiveable crime, the media painted her as a 
       hideous, dirty, and unpredictable immigrant, almost an 
       animal. Lucchesi brings to life the sights and sounds of 
       1920s Chicago--its then-rural outskirts, downtown halls of
       power, and headline-making crimes and trials, including 
       those of two other women (who would inspire the musical 
       and film Chicago) also accused of killing the men in their
       lives. But Sabella's fellow inmates Beulah and Belva were 
       beautiful, charmed the all-male juries, and were quickly 
       acquitted, raising doubts among many Chicagoans about the 
       fairness of the "poor ugly immigrant's" conviction. 
       Featuring an ambitious and ruthless journalist who helped 
       demonize Sabella through her reports, and the brilliant, 
       beautiful, twenty-three-year-old lawyer who helped 
       humanize her with a jailhouse makeover, Ugly Prey is not 
       just a page-turning courtroom drama but also a thought-
       provoking look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, 
       class, and the American justice system."--Amazon.com. 
600 10 Nitti, Sabella|xTrials, litigation, etc. 
650  0 Criminal justice, Administration of|zIllinois|zChicago. 
650  0 Judicial error|zIllinois|zChicago. 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zIllinois|zChicago. 
650  0 Immigrants|zIllinois|zChicago|y20th century. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 True crime stories.|2lcgft 
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